Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
The Brand and Marketing Creative team works on a variety of brand-centric projects for Stripe, from our brand standards to campaigns, events, IRL experiences, packaging, digital products, and even printed publications. The brand designers on this team are multidisciplinary in nature, able to design robust visual systems, art direction, and craft surfaces that focus on brand and product storytelling.
Collaborating with other teams at Stripe, as well as external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of experiences with the Stripe brand IRL, virtually, and everywhere in between. We craft the creative vision and strategy for different types of projects and audiences, and amplify them across various mediums, channels, objects to environments, and digital and physical experiences.
What you’ll do
You’ll be joining a highly creative team that spans anywhere from developing storytelling to creating digital tools, brand systems to rapid ideation. The work is highly experimental, idea driven, and very collaborative and cross-functional.
Responsibilities
- Be an adamant maker that is genuinely curious, experimental, and loves to tinker, iterate quickly, and innovate on ideas, narrative, and making beautiful things
- Creative vision: Design execution and quality of ideas work in equal partnership
- Collaborate with like-minded creative people who have radically different skill sets and together create ideas that envision an optimistic, progressive future
- Help shape the strategic vision for design that pushes the boundaries of the brand and build awareness for what we do and why it’s important to Stripe
- Partner widely with cross-functional teams to build upon great ideas through making things
- Give and solicit feedback from wide range of teammates and stakeholders
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 6+ years of relevant design and art direction experience for technical and product-driven companies
- Experience working on a variety of experimental projects that exemplify expertise in design, creative technology, typography, and art direction
- Strong track record independently delivering work as well as influencing the work of other designers, contractors, and agencies
- A strong strategic acumen for building leading brands in a fast paced, global facing environment
- Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Keynote, and google slides.
- Exceptional craft
Preferred qualifications
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- Are genuinely curious, ambitious and creative with a refreshing sense of design, impeccable typography skills, digitally savvy and deep appreciation for creative process, technology and design engineering
- Are persuasive and humble in explaining your work, process, and decisions and experienced at facilitating stakeholders to advance the project as well as design quality
- Have excellent organization and presentation skills, and excel in written and verbal communication
- Love working with other designers to help them learn and grow—and invite them to help you learn and grow
- Experience working (collaboration and facilitation) with cross functional partners
- Creative coding or creative technologist background is a nice to have
